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Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that provides comprehensive solutions for managing digital media assets, including images and videos, for websites and mobile applications. The platform exposes REST APIs for uploading and transforming media, administering assets and product environments, provisioning users and accounts, and configuring granular permissions. APIs use Basic Authentication with API key and secret over HTTPS.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Cloudinary the way a machine reads it — 41 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cloudinary scores 57.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Cloudinary

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cloudinary. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 9

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cloudinary Admin API

The Admin API supports bulk asset management (search, retrieval, update, delete, restore), and CRUD management of folders, metadata fields, metadata rules, upload presets, trans...

Cloudinary Search API

The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, ...

Cloudinary Provisioning API

The Provisioning API enables enterprise account-level management of product environments (sub-accounts), users, user groups, and API keys. Authentication uses provisioning API k...

Cloudinary Permissions API

The Permissions API assigns granular permissions to principals (users, groups, API keys) by roles or directly. Supports folder-scoped, asset- scoped, and product-environment-sco...

Cloudinary Transformation URL API

The Transformation URL API delivers and transforms images and videos by composing parameters into the delivery URL path (/{cloud_name}/{resource_type}/{type}/{transformations}/{...

Cloudinary Notifications and Webhooks

Cloudinary fires HTTP webhook notifications for upload completion, eager transformation completion, AI moderation outcomes, asset deletion, and backup events. Notifications incl...

Cloudinary Backup API

Backup retrieval operations.

Cloudinary Transformation API

Apply transformations to existing assets.

Cloudinary Upload API

Asset upload and management.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Cloudinary Upload API

OPEN COLLECTION

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Cloudinary GraphQL Schema

Cloudinary does not currently expose a public GraphQL API. This conceptual schema represents the domain model of Cloudinary's media management and transformation platform, deriv...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloudinary Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 25 monthly credits with all core features
Plus at $99/mo: 225 credits, S3 backup, auto-tagging
Advanced at $249/mo: 600 credits, custom domain, SSL
Enterprise: custom credits, multi-CDN, dedicated CSM
Credits = sum of transformations + storage + bandwidth
Image and video transformation API
URL-based on-the-fly transformations
Video transcoding and adaptive bitrate streaming
Upload API with auto-tagging
Admin API: 500 req/hr Free, 2K req/hr Paid
Bulk delete up to 1,000 resources/request
AI-powered transformations (background removal, generative fill)
Auto-format and auto-quality for delivery
Programmable Media SDKs (JS, mobile, server)
Digital Asset Management (DAM) with workflows
Multi-CDN delivery (Akamai + Fastly + others on Enterprise)

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Cloudinary Notifications

AsyncAPI description of Cloudinary's outbound notification (webhook) surface. Cloudinary delivers event notifications by issuing HTTP POST requests with a JSON body to a notific...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Cloudinary API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Cloudinary API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Asset

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenericRequest

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenericResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UploadRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Cloudinary Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cloudinary Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cloudinary Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cloudinary Agentic Access

8 operations · 7 acting

8 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cloudinary — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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